The purpose of the Web page is to present a summary of my
history —
both private and work —
introducing who I am, what I did,
where I have been and when, which route I preferred, and how I soared.
In the progress of creating this page, I came to a strong conclusion that I
am quite a curious person and strive to achieve my goals in the most
efficient and straightforward manner.

I am a native Japanese. I graduated
university in Japan, joined NEC Japan, quit it and joined
ASCII Corporation
in Japan, and then started working in USA at Chips &
Technologies, ASCII
USA, Auctor Corporation, and SanDisk
Corporation.
Our family has been living in Silicon Valley (Sunnyvale & San Jose), CA USA for 14
years since January 1988. I have been involved in
a semiconductor industry for quite a long time in both Japan and USA as an all-around
worker covering broad
technical and managerial experience.

Both Japanese and English language are
accessible on this Web page. The context was originally
written in
English for easier application and later translated into Japanese. Translating English to Japanese was no
problem. However, the irritating portion was typing the sentences by
Japanese word processor although I have long term experience of handling Japanese word
processors from its emergence. Taking 4 times as long compared to
typing in English, I began to ponder that perhaps for this reason, Japan is
the third class country in
the world concerning software development.

The contents of the page,
"Career", will be appended and updated soon —
It is only about 10% complete by today. In
the near future, interesting story along with
pictures introducing the culture difference between Japan and USA, will be
released including:
• Development of standard LSIs for desk-top calculators
• Visiting Olivetti Corporation of
America, PA
USA
• Development of programmable video game LSIs (triggered by Atari's
Pong)
• Honey moon to USA and Purchasing Tandy's TRS-80 personal
computer
• Development of graphics display controller LSIs under
technology
exchange contract with Intel
• Around the world business trip
• Relationship with ASCII
(Kay Nishi) and Microsoft
(Bill Gates)
• Development of foremost LSIs in USA
• Communicating with US subsidiaries and the termination
• Stock option and Employee Stock Purchase
Plan
• Culture difference between US and Japanese employees and
employers
• Knowledge of tax, Japan versus USA
• Education and student aid in USA
• Dealing in automobile and home in USA
• Etc.

My first Web page was published in 1995
by using a regular text editor. The work seemed to be a source code manual editing of
Microsoft Word document file with formatting
options. I slowly worked on the page hoping that a certain commercial company
would soon develop and provide a Web page processor similar to existing word
processors.
I would be perfectly satisfied with a Web page processor available today if
the support of Japanese language was fully implemented under English Windows or
Office.

I paid close attention to the followings
while making the Web page:
• Providing hyperlinks as many as possible for easy and
knowledgeable access
• Well balance of colors, fonts, and sizes for aesthetic
pleasure, not being gaudy
• Documents and pictures provided by Adobe
Acrobat PDF files

Regardless of visitors' recognition, I also
utilized a certain special techniques from my technical interest:
• Applying Active Server Page with Visual Basic Scripts and server
inquiries
• Interactive software using Java script running on client
side
• Availability of Japanese sentence display by regular English
browsers on English windows
• Applying a certain page/document protection

I am also planning to include the following additional technical features:
• Interactive software using Visual Basic
script running on server side
• Baking cookies

Internal and external hyperlinks are
clearly discriminated by putting bold attribute for internal
hyperlinks.
This Web site consumes around 40MB disk
space as of today. The quota is 50MB.

This Web page has been created in casual
manner with a certain weird jokes and somewhat strange personal observations.

Original contents had been created in 2001. Most people used 56
kbps Modem with dial-up at that time instead of high speed Internet
connection by DSL or cable availabe now. Therefore, I made an
intensive effort to reduce the file size to be downloaded to my site
visitors. Most files were blurry due to the reason.I newly made
them clear and crisp, especially most PDF files internally linked, after
long time hibernation. Now, the quota is amazingly unlimitted!!